Printing Fabric Patches

Hey all, does anyone have any experience with this?

There used to be a place (PatchesofPride) that used to make this stuff, but they closed up shop last year (I believe, or the year before). If you have a quality image, you should be able to pull it off if you have a really good printer.

Stryker2012 wrote:There used to be a place (PatchesofPride) that used to make this stuff, but they closed up shop last year (I believe, or the year before). If you have a quality image, you should be able to pull it off if you have a really good printer.

I remember that place!! Unfortunately my printer is garbage and just gets the job done. Haha.

I was hoping to make a logo for Harmont PD.

Do you have a Staples, Fed Ex (formerly Kinkos), or something similar near you? If you design it and make a high-res scan or photo of it, shrink it down, you may be able to get them to do it for you, as long as you bring them the fabric paper.

First time post.

I've made hundreds of fabric patches for my Joe collection, the trick is getting the right paper. JoAnn Fabrics and Walmart used to carry fabric sticker paper for inkjet printers which made excellent cloth patch decals. Unfortunately, neither store carries it now. JoAnn carries non-stick fabric printer paper, but it is really meant for large projects and didn't work well at all for my little decals.
There is a guy on YouTube called Toy-Polloi that has tutorials for restoring old toys and he covers this topic in one of his video's. Basically, he prints the design onto iron-on transfer paper and then irons it onto a piece of white cotton cloth. Then he cuts it out and applies the patch to double sided tape and sticks it to his figure. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks pretty slick. You'll have to check out the video. Good luck!

I’ve made a few similar things with iron on printed decals - I think I got the paper at a £1 shop or discount store like 10below!

ubejs57 wrote:First time post.

I've made hundreds of fabric patches for my Joe collection, the trick is getting the right paper. JoAnn Fabrics and Walmart used to carry fabric sticker paper for inkjet printers which made excellent cloth patch decals. Unfortunately, neither store carries it now. JoAnn carries non-stick fabric printer paper, but it is really meant for large projects and didn't work well at all for my little decals.
There is a guy on YouTube called Toy-Polloi that has tutorials for restoring old toys and he covers this topic in one of his video's. Basically, he prints the design onto iron-on transfer paper and then irons it onto a piece of white cotton cloth. Then he cuts it out and applies the patch to double sided tape and sticks it to his figure. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks pretty slick. You'll have to check out the video. Good luck!

Nice of you to stop by to drop this little nugget of gold! Very cool. Welcome.